Living With Your Motor Home; Monitor Panel; Plumbing System And Holding Tanks; Draining The Holding Tanks - Fleetwood American Eagle User Manual

LIVING WITH YOUR MOTOR HOME
When preparing to travel in your motor home,
you have 20 minutes to retract your slide outs
and raise your leveling jacks before the air
leveling system "times out". In the event you
exceed this period, you will be required to turn
the motor off with the ignition key, wait five
seconds with the key in the off position and
restart your engine. Press the "Travel Mode" on
the leveling system key pad to ensure activation
of the leveling system to "travel height". This
event should take less than five minutes. You
can verify the leveling system is at ride height
by observing the clearance between the tires and
the wheel well skirts. There should be
approximately two to three inches of vertical
clearance between these two components with
the wheels pointing straight ahead. Failure to
wait until the leveling system is fully inflated
may result to damage to the fiberglass wheel
well skirt or damage.
MONITOR PANEL
Your motor home is equipped with a computer.
The computer will operate the Monitor Panel
System. The motor home will have two color
display screens. One is located in the dash and
the other monitor is located in the control panel
display center.
Your Network Computer Information Package
contains detailed operating and maintenance
instructions concerning the system.
PLUMBING SYSTEMS AND
HOLDING TANKS
DRAINING THE HOLDING TANKS
The holding tanks terminate in a valve arrange-
ment that permits draining of each tank sepa-
rately. The valves are called knife valves. A
blade closes the opening in the sewer drain
pipes. The blade is connected to a 12-Volt elec-
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tric motor. A button will activate the knife valve
for discharging the wastewater from the RV.
During self-containment use, the sewer line is
securely capped to prevent leakage of waste
material onto the ground or pavement. Do
1I0t
activa,te the knife valve when the protective cap
is installed on the pipe. Always drain the tank
into an acceptable sewer inlet or dump station.
Drain the holding tanks only when they are at
least 3/4 full. If necessary, fill the tanks with
water to 3/4 full. This provides sufficient water
to allow complete flushing of waste material
into the sewer line.
Whenever possible, drain the holding tanks
before traveling. Wastewater and sewage in the
holding tanks reduces the cany capacity of the
motor home. See the Motor Home Loading
chapter.
During extended or semi-permanent hook-ups to
sewage systems, waste materials will build up in
the tank and cause serious plugging. If the tank
valves are continuously open. In these cases,
keep the valve closed until the tanks are 3/4 full,
and then drain into the sewage system.
The holding tank drain valve outlet is to be used
with a removable termination fitting that locks
onto the outlet with a clockwise twist. Clamp
the sewer hose drain to this fitting. A protective
cap should remain in place when you are not
draining the tanks.
To drain the holding tanks:
1. Attach the sewer hose to the holding tank
outlet. Insert the end of the hose into the
sewer or dump station inlet, pushing it
firmly far enough into the opening to be
secure. In some cases, adapters may be
necessary or required between the line and
the inlet. Arrange the sewer hose so it
slopes evenly.
2. Drain the black water holding tank first.
Push the dump switch up towards the word
"open" and watch for discharge down the
sewer hose. The valve will open in 1-2 sec-
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